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...HEW's massive nuclear probe...
...massive project marks a grim scientific milestone of sorts. While retrospective studies were made of Japanese A-bomb victims after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is the first ever undertaken to examine effects of low-level radiation from essentially the time of exposure. The HEW studies at a glance...
Califano emphasized that launching the studies does not reflect any new alarm. Nor did he back off from estimates that the accident will add only one cancer death to the 325,000 expected in the region's population of 2 million. Despite the HEW chiefs reassuring words, the atmosphere in the Three Mile Island area remains charged with emotion...
...Humphrey explains that education is spread across the government for several reasons, including the insurance of diverse funding sources. "If you're going to reorganize HEW," Humphrey asks, "why take the smallest part away?" On Capitol Hill, there is feeling that if HEW is dismantled, a Department of Education would become a mouthpiece for the NEA while a Department of Health would become a loudspeaker for the American Medical Association. Both Albert Shanker, president of the AFT, and Bok, despite their diverging motivations, suggest an internal reorganization of the massive HEW machinery along the lines of the Pentagon's five...
...meanwhile, says that most important matters he can get the "understanding and sympathy" of the secretary of HEW. Rosenthal comments, "'Visibility' and 'status' are undefined catch phrases which hardly justify creation of a cabinet level department of education...